Nigeria’s health sector professionals gathered at the Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Thursday for the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria’s (PSHAN) Annual Conference 2026, themed, “Driving Digital Innovation for a Healthier Nigeria.”
Chizoba Okafor, Country Head, Nigeria, at Flutterwave, drew a direct line between fintech’s interoperability gains and what healthcare still lacks.
“Millions of Nigerians move money daily. It happens because banks, regulators, fintech and technology provide interoperable systems instead of isolated ones,” Okafor said.
He noted that hospitals, insurance providers, pharmacies, laboratories, government agencies and payment providers are still largely operating in isolation from one another.
For Okafor, the stakes of getting this wrong are higher in health than in finance.
